Re: Firefox Warning
On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 06:19:33PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote:
> On my RPI4b bookworm system as I was browsing, Firefox stopped me
> demanding to update and I couldn't continue to use FF until I accepted
> its demand and let it update. It did so then restarted FF at which
> point it became almost totally unusable the menu bars had come to
> black background with very dark grey text. I have tried
> 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' hoping restore FF to usability also
> 'apt-get reinstall firefox' with no luck.
> FF was very difficult to read and it took hours and going back to my
> buster install on another PI before I figured out how to get it back
> to a usable state.
>
> When I loaded LibreOffice calc to record stock quotes I found that
> calc had, too, inherited the same problem with the top menu bars, as
> well as the side bars and bottom status bars are black with nearly
> illegible text.
> I've not yet gotten calc straightened out.
>
> If anyone can point me to what in the system Firefox update could have
> changed to affect other programs I'd appreciate the help.
>
> Frankly I'm aghast at the arrogance of the FF group to force an update
> on their users and quite peeved that they would do so and screw up my
> system as well.
>
> Merry Christmas everyone,
> Mike
> --
> Silence & smile are two powerful tools.
> Smile is the way to solve many problems
> & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
>
out of curiosity...did you upgrade using
sudo apt upgrade firefox-esr
or apt-get or synaptic.
I have never had FF force me to upgrade. Hope you find a fix to your problem.
--
Alexander J. Martinez
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